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Thème: savoir, création innovationAxe: sciences et techniques, promesses et défisProblématique: how does transhumanism question the very notion of humanity?Final task: collaborate to an online sciences magazine
Séquence 3
Start
Augmented
9. Memorize
5. join the Sutori
11.second staff meeting
4. Step 1- video / concepts of Transhumanism
10. Group work
8. Step 3-Meet David Pearce
3. Definition + Memorize
7. Step 2- Frankenstein/ first transhumanist novel
2. Brainstorming/ vocabulary
6. First staff meeting
1. scenario and roles
table of content
Scenario
You are a team of journalists and you were asked to publish a special issue of your magazine "The sciences" on the issue of Transhumanism. In pairs, you will have to write a series of articles on different subjects and to collaborate on the creation of this Magazine. So as a team of real journalists, you need to master your subject first.
what could have been added
Your word cloud
Brainstorming
A way to enhance human abilities using technology
A definition?
Let's go into details
Loss of control
based on the principle that humans don't use all their brain capacity
Supe intelligence
Can be achieved through mind transfer
Difference
Immortality
denying the right to live to the clones
humans raised to be used as clones to repair humans
cloning
Implants
Loss of control
Fusing with the machine to be enhanced
Once awakened they cannot go back
Humans are frozen until they reach their destination, allows them not to age
cryonics
You are journalist from "The sciences Magazine". You were asked to publish a special issue of the magazine about Transhumanism. This is time for research. Follow the steps on the sutori. You will use the notes to write your articles, but also to intervene during the first staff meeting, so the quality of your interventions depends on the quality of your research.
2. Your 2° task
Your Turn!
1. Join Sutori
The editors in chief have to react, to guide you, to ask you questions to make sure you went deeper enough into the subject.
step 03
You expose your findings to the editors in chief following the pieces of advice given.
step 02
You collaborate for your researches and post them on Sutori so that everyone can use them.
Time for the first staff meeting
step 01
At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
questions
questions
s'entrainer pour le bac méthodologie.
Start
La traduction
2. Traduire
1. relire plusieurs fois le texte en se posant les bonnes questions
Traduire de l'anglais vers le français
Correction, proposition 1
Your editors have asked you to present a movie of your choice that deals with transhumanism to the team in order for all the journalists to be on the same level of knowledge. Each of you will have one minute 30 to do this presentation. Follow the steps.
Oral presentations
Watch this extract from a movie dated 1994, adapted from the novel. Find the common points and differences. Explain which one you would choose for the magazine and why.
Interpreting a text
Tous les comparatifs/rappel.
Book cover selection
One team of journalist is going to be in charge of the series of articles on Frankenstein and the transhumanist novels. Your editorial board has asked you to select the best book cover that is going to illustrate these articles. In groups, discuss in English about the best one and also about the worst one and get ready to explain your choices to the editorial board. The choice of the most convincing group will be published to illustrate an article.
Create the book trailer with imovie. Click to see the details of the task.
step 04
be sure to use past tenses like preterit and past perfect.
step 03
Imagine a new scenario for the work of Mary Shelley which would correspond to the chosen cover.
step 02
observe the cover you have selected
Book trailer competition-GWRevisiting Frankenstein
step 01
Meet david pearce, one of the most famous British Guru of Transhumanism
Let's train and memorize
- Step 2: (within your group) GROUPexchange the information you understood with the other members of the group. Make sure everybody understands, so use your own words.
The aim is for each group to be able to participate in the staff meeting adding something new to the discussion
- Step 3: SHARESynthesize all your exhanges taking notes in the middle of the white board. Make them clear enough for them to be a help you will use during the staff meeting.
- Step 1: (within your group but alone) THINKOn your own: read the document, take notes on your side of the white board and get ready to expose to the rest of the group
Last step before second staff meeting
Group work: each group works on a different subject, and in each group, each student has a different document
Vocabulary
Read article 3 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat
Watch video 1 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat
Read article 2 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat
group 1
Journalist group work: each one will read one of the article on his own and then you will exchange on your document in order for each group to synthesize to the editor in chief during the next editorial board meeting.
What if the military used transhumanism?
3. dARPA's secrets
article 1
article 2
article 3
Video 1
4. The comics warning
2. DARPA
1. Super soldiers?
Read article 1 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat
Watch video 2 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
Vocabulary
Watch video 1 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
Read and watch file 1 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
group 2
Journalist group work: each one will read one of the article on his own and then you will exchange on your document in order for each group to synthesize to the editor in chief during the next editorial board meeting.
Humanizing the machines
3. 2023 interview- 60' Australia
article 1
File 1
Video 2
Video 1
4. Meet Sofia
2. The movie industry denounces AI
1. Is A.I a danger to arts?
Read article 1 and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
Vocabulary
Go through the file and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
group 3
Journalist group work: In pairs, you will go through one of the articles or files and then you will exchange on your document(s) in order for each group to synthesize to the editor in chief during the next editorial board meeting.
Making fun of Transhumanism
Students 3&4: Pure fun?
article 1
File 1
Students 1 &2: Is cryonics serious?
Go through the file and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
Vocabulary
Go through the file and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
group 4
Journalist group work: In pairs, you will go through the article(s) or file(s) and then you will exchange on your document in order for each group to synthesize to the editor in chief during the next editorial board meeting.
Where is the future taking us?
Students 3&4: to be human is to be transhuman
article 1
File 1
Students 1 &2: Neuralink
Read the following article and get ready to explain it to the others, take notes on your side of the placemat.
Time to choose the subjects of your articles. Use the notes on Sutori, explain your choices to the editor in chief.
step 04
The editors in chief have to react, to guide you, to ask you questions to make sure you went deeper enough into the subject.
step 03
You expose your findings to the editors in chief following the pieces of advice given.
step 02
You collaborate for your researches and post them on Sutori so that everyone can use them.
Time for the second staff meeting
step 01
correction
Watch the video carefully and take notes to find out about the different concepts of transhumanism
Robotic infantry mulesHeavy lifting is one of the largest challenges affecting troops’ health and performance. Recognizing the affect the weight of soldiers’ loads can have on them, DARPA began working with robotics company Boston Dynamics to create the Legged Squad Support System.Capable of carrying 400 pounds, the LS3 is intended to deploy with an infantry squad.
5. Brain implants for PTSDDARPA doesn’t just focus on cool gadgets for fighting wars. The agency also funds research on solutions for the negative effects war can have on soldiers.Basically, the program wants to make a brain implant that will help soldiers struggling with PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, anxiety, substance abuse, and more.Because of the ramifications of such a device, SUBNETS has special ethics experts to help them create a safe piece of neurotechnology.
Cyborg insectsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles may be all the rage, but they’re clunky and require people to design and assemble every piece. What if there were a way to piggyback sensors on flying creatures for free?DARPA’s spy bugs were part of a 2006 project that wanted to implant transmitters in insects to use them for surveillance. The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems program was run by teams from the University of Michigan and Cornell University.Within a few years, researchers had developed interfaces capable of controlling insects’ actions. And if plain old spy bugs weren’t wild enough, the insects eventually received nuclear power as well.
Lab-grown bloodBlood pharming is the process of creating red blood cells from cell sources in a lab rather than inside a human body. DARPA’s Blood Pharming program was projected to increase the efficiency of production and lower the high costs associated with growing red blood cells.If completely successful, the program would have greatly increased access to transfusable blood for soldiers and hospitals around the world and reduced the risk of disease transmission during a transfusion.
Houses that repair themselvesImagine soldiers fashioning buildings and fortifications out of lightweight scaffolds instead of plywood, two-by-fours, and heavy sandbags. Then, those scaffolds quickly begin to fill in with durable material all on their own. And when that material is damaged, it grows right back to where it was.
Plant-eating robotsPerhaps the most aptly named project on this list, the Energy Autonomous Tactical Robot program sought to create robots that could feed off plants just as animals do. EATR would have enabled robots to remain in surveillance or defensive positions without resupply much longer than humans or robots with more limited power sources.
A few weird projects
What it means
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Contrast and paradox
In pairs, write a short account about the common points and differences. Don't forget to use expressions to give your opinion level B1/B2.
You will have to add some text because the templates do not offer enough. To do so, you can transform some images into pages of text (word==> capture d'écran).It's a competition, make sure to be creative!
- Show the trailer or a meaningful extract- Explain the synopsis of the movie or TV show- Explain what concept of transhumanism is exploited and how.- Tell us about the limits or dangers exposed.
Present a movie to your editorial board
Got an idea?
Let the communication flow!
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to wow your audience. You can also highlight a particular sentence or piece of information so that it sticks in your audience’s minds, or even embed external content to surprise them: Whatever you like!Do you need more reasons to create dynamic content? No problem! 90% of the information we assimilate is received through sight and, what’s more, we retain 42% more information when the content moves.
- Generate experiences with your content.
- It’s got the Wow effect. Very Wow.
- Make sure your audience remembers the message.
Do “super soldiers” already exist?It is important to emphasise, first of all, the diverse nature of augmentation technologies, each with their specificities and constraints. As far as material augmentation devices are concerned, the best-known example is the exoskeleton. Applications for this device in the military appear to be much more complex than for the non-military since soldiers are often forced to adapt to the machine’s capabilities. Exoskeletons do not currently appear to be able to respond to the complexity of human movements, and the many possible interactions between the individual and his or her environment and are still subject to the problem of autonomy. But all this could change.The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on Lockheed Martin’s Onyx prototype, which is motorised for the lower limbs, and the flexible Wyss Exosuit device developed by Harvard University. However, these projects are clearly a far cry from the initial ambitions of an Iron-Man-inspired armour-exoskeleton. Beyond exoskeletons, there are programmes such as the “Z‑Man”, directly supervised by DARPA and which, inspired by gecko lizards, aim to enable combatants to climb vertical walls while carrying a full combat load – without the use of ropes or ladders. DARPA is also working on ultra-connected lenses that offer augmented reality with the aim of “providing individual soldiers with data from reconnaissance drones and sensors on the battlefield” or multiple cognitive devices – with or without surgery.What about chemistry?In terms of pharmacology, the US armed forces, like many military powers, have regularly used chemical substances throughout history. More broadly, there is a strong link between drugs and war. Amphetamines (to combat stress or fatigue) were used during the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. However, their use is under debate, particularly because of their side effects (euphoria, higher heart rate and blood pressure, insomnia, etc.). An alternative is modafinil (Provigil), a powerful psychostimulant that also helps to improve alertness, without the side effects of amphetamines. In addition, certain substances such as the anxiolytic “emapunil” or the beta-blocker “propranolol” can reduce post-traumatic stress disorders or lessen feelings of fear.https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/braincamps/society/work-health-military-is-the-augmented-human-revolution-already-here/super-soldiers-augmented-humans-in-wartime/
Your roles: - Journalists: work in pairs, write a series of articles, each pair has a different subject and will write one or several articles.- Editors in chiefs: 2 students, they will be in charge of opening and editing the articles (use Madmagz:https://madmagz.com/), they will write the edito and the table of content, they will receive the journalists' articles and organize the magazine, they will have the lead on the editorial choices)- The director: that's meThe Staff meetings: there will be 2 staff meetings at least. The team(s) will go to the editorial room(s) to explain to their editor(s) in chief and their director what they have learnt, chosen and how they are going to organize their work.
Tips for the first staff meeting
- The question you will have to discuss is about the content of the future magazine, the different parts it is going to contain...- Select the information you are going to present, the work on Sutori is collaborative, which means you may choose to present something that you haven't worked on, even if it is less confortable.- Justify your choice, why do you think it would be interesting to publish something about that subject, to focus on that work, that leader....- Pay attention, not to repeat something that has already been said...- Of course, we have just started, so you may use expressions like: "so far...", "if I get the concept right...", + ginving your opinion.
Tips for the staff meeting part 4
- The question you will have to discuss is about the content of the future magazine, the different parts it is going to contain...- Select the information you are going to present, the work on Sutori is collaborative, which means you may choose to present something that you haven't worked on, even if it is less confortable.- Justify your choice, why do you think it would be interesting to publish something about that subject, to focus on that work, that leader....Give leads as to what you want to write.- Pay attention, not to repeat something that has already been said during the meeting or to choose a similar subject.
Rappel: le superlatif, cliquez pour agrandir
Rappel: adjectifs courts et longs, cliquez pour agrandir
Rappel: comparatifs, vous pouvez l'imprimer
La tournure: plus....plus..., moins...moins...
AI generated picture for: Woman reading book, under a night sky, dreamy atmosphere,
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The implications of AI image generation are far-reaching and could impact everything from film to graphic novels and more. Children’s illustrators were quick to raise concerns about the technology on social media. Among them is author and illustrator Rob Biddulph, who says that AI-generated art “is the exact opposite of what I believe art to be. Fundamentally, I have always felt that art is all about translating something that you feel internally into something that exists externally. Whatever form it takes, be it a sculpture, a piece of music, a piece of writing, a performance, or an image, true art is about the creative process much more than it’s about the final piece. And simply pressing a button to generate an image is not a creative process.”Beyond creativity, there are deeper issues. An online campaign – #NotoAIArt – has seen artists sharing concerns about the legality of AI image generators, and about how they have the potential to devalue the skill of illustration. To create images from prompts, AI generators rely on databases of already existing art and text. These comprise billions of images that have been scraped from the internet. [...]Harry Woodgate, author and illustrator of Grandad’s Camper, which won the Waterstones 2022 picturebook prize, says: “These programs rely entirely on the pirated intellectual property of countless working artists, photographers, illustrators and other rights holders.” It’s a point echoed by illustrator Anoosha Syed: “AI doesn’t look at art and create its own. It samples everyone’s then mashes it into something else.”The increasing use of AI [...] will also lead to a devaluing of the work of artists. “There’s already a negative bias towards the creative industry. Something like this reinforces an argument that what we do is easy and we shouldn’t be able to earn the money we command.” says an artists before going further. “There’s no question that AI-generated art devalues illustration,” he says. “People will, of course, begin to think that their ‘work’ is as valid as that created by someone who has spent a career making art. It’s nonsense, of course. I can use my iPhone to take a nice picture of my daughters, but I’m not Irving Penn.”For the moment, AI image generation is largely being used for fun, but it’s “rapidly approaching a level of sophistication and complexity that will allow it to generate highly realistic and nuanced images. AI-generated content has the potential to not only enhance the work of artists and designers, but also to enable the creation of entirely new forms of art and expression.” The Guardian, January 2023
Read the first paragraphs
Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. A descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The film is a parody of the classic horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus To help evoke the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black and white, a rarity in the 1970s, and employed 1930s-style opening credits and scene transitions .
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Collins has been remade against his will, by the system that sees every person (but especially Black people) as disposable tools. Collins’ rebellion becomes more meaningful than Manning’s because he does not simply turn his gun on his former corporate overlords. He does not seek vengeance through brute strength, but atonement by undoing his contribution to Roxxon.It’s an intensely moral story, cutting to the question of personal responsibility. How much can we blame the individual for taking part in a wicked system? The answer it gives is remarkably clear – Collins is responsible for the ill use made of his technology. He cannot shriek away from the truth with excuses. When given a chance to achieve humanity once again, at the end of the mini-series, at the price of letting Ryker go free, he refuses. He refuses the company-mandated happy ending because that would mean he is still under their thumb, that they can dictate what he is. Collins refuses to be twisted and, despite being stuck in a cyborg body, still feels much more like a free man.
Taking place in the present – and firmly within the Marvel universe – it features Professor Michael Collins, a pacifist working for Marvel all-purpose evil corporation Roxxon. Thinking he was making limbs for amputees, Collins is horrified to discover the company is using his research to make cyborgs for the military. When he tries to inform on them ,his boss has him silenced and uses his brain to power the new iteration of Deathlok; sending to him to a ‘field tests’ involving the murder of South American rebels opposing USA corporate takeover. Being forced to go against his deepest core beliefs by taking lives shocks Collins enough to allow him to take control of his new body, and then on to take on his bosses at Roxxon.McDuffie and Wright set themselves a bigger challenge, and more interesting path with Collins: a man who now inhabits a living weapon that explicitly refuses to kill.Taking the concept of military-industrial concept directly, the series explores the relation between business and the military, and the way both have the power to twist people into their own ends. Unlike the 1970’s series, in which the military was the sole responsible factor, this series took place directly in the post-Reagan era in which the forces of market capitalism sought to atomize individuals. Collins is shielded, at first, from the consequences of his work. He is an upwardly mobile Black man with a nice house and a nice family. He could’ve kept it all if only he kept his head down and played ball.
Questions:1. Situate the scene: who is the main character, where is he and what has he just done? Justify by quoting from the text.2. Show that Doctor Frankenstein is not self-assured at the beginning of the text. Pick out the lexical field that corresponds to his work.3. Explain why the scientist is disappointed with his creature. Pay attention to the tenses you are going to use.4. After the creation is completed, what does he realize? Pick out the corresponding lexical fields to justify your answer. How do these words contrast in order to illustrate his expectations or his disappointment?5. How does he consider his creature at the end of the text? What is your reaction? What could be expected from the creature and why?
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Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland. It follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent humanoid robot. But the AI is going to manipulate him.